You've Got To Lie To

I Was Always Kind Of Florid. And Full Of Rhetoric. That Was My Flaw. My Whole Time Writing, I've Had To Work Against That Because It Can Be A Wrecking Posture.

The First Two Drinks Were Always Wonderfully Liberating. You Think Better. You're Braver, And You'll Say Anything. If You Could Just Hang In There With Two Or Three, It'd Be Beautiful. The Trouble Was I Couldn't.

If You Are Able To Explain Suffering, A Man Once Told Him, You Weren't Really There.

I Wouldn't Buy Somebody's Album On A Dare If They Called Him A Musician's Musician. I Don't Write To Be A Writer's Writer. I Don't Want To Be Like The Little-magazine Writer.

My Best Stories Come Out Of Nowhere, With No Concern For Form At All.